Sunday, August 7, 2022

Message for Monday 8 August 2022

Monday 8 August 2022


\Serendipity/


Moon in Sagittarius—>Capricorn

/moon goes void-of-course at 3:31a PT | 6:31a ET | 10:31a UT

until it enters Capricorn at 11:40a PT | 2:40p ET | 6:40p UT

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A Native American mounted on his steed, with scalp locks,

Has authority and command supremely. He acquires his enemy’s

Mana. A barnyard heifer by contrast seems born to obey,

Docile and tractable, a servant standing to the plow.

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The coach is heavily laden with passengers who bring their problems

To the man on whom they feel dependent. He’s devoted but mostly

Unrewarded. By contrast another man is cool and collected, an able

Friend but presumptuous, commanding attention through pride.

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The man riding a camel is followed by many attendants,

A prominent figure internationally, vindictive to foes

And successful in journeys. A woman lightly clad who admires

Him lies in a field of violet-colored flowers, indolent.

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Commanding or letting-be, serving or attention-gaining

Or happily lax, we find our place serendipitously.

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{Monday} /Serendipity\


Cosmic Piper

Saturday, August 6, 2022

Message for Sunday 7 August 2022

Sunday 7 August 2022


^Dreaming Giant^


Moon in Sagittarius

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A mental giant who could accomplish much for the world

Plays with a child’s doll instead. People laugh, and then

Don’t when terrorized by a serpent with many heads.

Could not the giant have eliminated this pest?

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The would-be inventor has a room of machinery and chemicals,

Perceiving hidden connections through rapt experimentation.

His neighbor reads and writes poetry by day, and by night

Watches for falling stars. Uncertainty’s his chosen romance.

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The road has several branches, toward machines, stars, a doll

Or a serpent. By contrast a jewelry shop seems quite prosaic,

No matter the price of its gems. But it preserves practical

Values and enables kaleidoscopic artistry-display.

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Whether science and invention, or poetry and dream,

Activity toward something missing guarantees stature.

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{Sunday} ^Dreaming Giant^


Cosmic Piper

Friday, August 5, 2022

Message for Saturday 6 August 2022

Saturday 6 August 2022


^Lone Horseman^


Moon in Scorpio—>Sagittarius

|Karmically serious, sobering third| of this week continues until 10:18p PT | 1:18a(Su) ET | 5:18a(Su) UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:25a PT | 7:25a ET | 11:25a UT

until it enters Sagittarius at 9:40a PT | 120p ET | 4:40p UT

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His face is clean-shaven except for a trimmed mustache

And he is fond of all fashionable pleasures. Convention is

Enough for him, on a long straight road with no

Terminus. Uniformly even, his life is ambitionless.

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In a land of lakes the waters are troubled by cold winds.

The path leads in too many, four, directions, so which

Is best? A white dove flies past the nearest lake toward

One of the paths. “Let’s try that one” hazards the guide.

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A horseman, armed, is moving across a desert toward

Woody hills in the distance. Venturesome and self-reliant,

Estranged from friends, pioneer, he needs some respite

In the trees and hills. There he’s encouraged by a huge star

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In the west, its rays confined to one spot. Isolated like himself,

It messages hope for the loneliness of genius.

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{Saturday} ^Lone Horseman^


Cosmic Piper

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Message for Friday 5 August 2022

 Friday 5 August 2022


~Wordless Guidance~


The Moon in Scorpio leaves the Via Combusta very early but is forming a square with Saturn which makes this the center of the |karmically difficult third| of this week, until very late Saturday night

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A parrot listens and then talks. There’s nothing original in its

Discourse, yet its chatter is oddly appropriate.

Meanwhile the human soul ingenuously seeks a chance

To express itself wholeheartedly through refined nuances.

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The crystal gazer would prefer to say nothing than to

Disappoint her client. Sensing troubled waters, she wants

To be a white dove above them, offering wordless as well as

Spoken guidance. Shared understanding is winged with freedom.

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The elephant carrying a castle on his back displays cool

Courage. Always at home and at peace, he defends the weak.

As the sun sets a man’s figure is shown in

Relief, standing on a mountain with a staff.

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When nothing comes to mind a parrot’s mantra will

Suffice while one mountaineers with Ganesh.

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{Friday} ~Wordless Guidance~


Cosmic Piper

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Message for Thursday 4 August 2022

Thursday 4 August 2022


~A Continent Refashioned~


Moon in Libra—>Scorpio

< moon is in the Via Combusta (lack of morale while enduring a cosmic reshuffling)

/moon goes void-of-course at 11:20a PT | 2:20p ET | 6:20p UT
until it enters Scorpio at 4:48p PT | 7:48p ET | 11:48p UT

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He sleeps in the heat, implements beside him, unused

Out of lack of interest, dreaming not working.

When awake he peeps around the corner at armed men

Reconnoitering. Now he wants to be a strategist.

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Really he’s like an old sea captain rocking in his chair,

Reliving experiences in memory, fighting old battles;

Then sees, as by a finger pointing in an open book,

Dramatized wisdom confirming fresh insight toward action.

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Could a new continent form, where incarnated wisdom

Reworks original reality through successive cycles?

A crystal gazer shares her purview of limitless potentials.

Acutely the world and the individual reflect each other in

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Mood-partnership. Consummate insight fabricates convenience

Into a fascinating story. Firm ground is shaped by desire.

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{Thursday} ~A Continent Refashioned~


Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Message for Wednesday 3 August 2022

Wednesday 3 August 2022


Nancy Pelosi's Journey; and {Casting Spells{


A lot is happening on the “world stage” while Mars is conjoined to Uranus (in Taurus) and both square to Saturn (in Aquarius). This is a potentially violent or danger-fraught aspect. Further, the sun in Leo is building up to a T square with all these planets. Aquarius rules aviation. So does Uranus. Mars rules violence or attack. As we all have heard, yesterday the U. S. bombed and killed, via a drone, a major Al Qaeda terrorist leader, Ayman Al Zawahiri. If I were into making predictions of disasters I could have predicted some kind of major violence involving aviation.

Further, Nancy Pelosi has just landed in Taiwan and will talk with officials there Wednesday. You can check out the media reactions to this—-a great deal of it is negative. Pelosi is considered to have breached advice from the Biden administration to do this, and many regard her trip as an “ego trip” to make a final display of her glory while she is still Speaker of the House. What is amazing!: In her birth-chart (March 26, 1940) Uranus is at 19 Taurus and right now Uranus is at 18 Taurus and Mars with it at 19 Taurus! This is a “direct hit.” Further, her Venus is at 20 Taurus and her Mars at 26 Taurus, opposed by the transiting Saturn and conjoined by Mars and Uranus. Now if I were into sensationalism I could say “Maybe Pelosi will trigger a war” or “be assassinated” or something extreme like that. No, things do not generally play out that way. Further, Venus at 19 Cancer is sextile (very good aspect) Mars and Uranus, which is why this is a “fun” or exalting trip for her, a chance to use and prove her “charisma” or charm as well as her authority as Speaker. 

Pelosi is Aries and has, along with many other Aries individuals, been accused of narcissism. As another Aries I refrain from commenting upon that! But Aries does have a rebellious side. One of the symbols in the chart for the week (Charubel) says: “This person will do some great deed in life, which will be handed down to posterity. He will live to a ripe old age.” Another symbol for the week: “Three men in a boat, two on one side, one on the other.” This could be the U.S. and Taiwan on one side, China on the other. “Denotes one who will meet with much rivalry and opposition.” But things could calm down: another symbol for the week: “A sailing ship on a calm sea.” “In whatever sphere of action he may be engaged, he will come out with honor. He will receive the plaudits of the age; but such popularity will not long survive his demise.”

My only prediction: It shall be interesting.

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The wind blows the clouds into fantastic patterns

While people hasten to their jobs and projects.

The moon wanes. On the sea a ship roves slowly,

Seemingly disabled. Instability trumps perseverance.

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At a tavola set for a meal the adversarial man

Fondles his stiletto, headstrong but honorable. His friends

Regard him a champion. A trencherman with sharp wit,

He holds his head high. His pride seems harmless.

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A fine white bull grazes in the shade of a large tree.

Its owner has a large estate and leads a reserved,

Advantaged life. Toward midnight he sits by his lamp studying

Grand problems, with gigantic will: a magician.

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Approaching life with gusto and sharp wit

Prepares the soul for deeper strains of magic.

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{Wednesday} {Casting Spells}


Cosmic Piper

Monday, August 1, 2022

Message for Tuesday 2 August 2022

Tuesday 2 August 2022


}Luxuriating{


Moon in Libra (except for very early in the Eastern Hemisphere, see yesterday’s report for time)

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The wind blows clouds into transitioning patterns

While people haste toward goals with wind in face.

One man descends into a pit he has dug for surprising

Gain in his own home town and is happy with the result.

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Another stands on an elevation, arms folded, head erect,

Steady and able in body. He loves freedom but also

Loves to serve. Sometimes he rides a spirited horse

To spread, far and wide, a message he believes in.

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A woman lightly clad lies in a field of violet flowers,

Gentle and unassuming, content to rely on luxurious and fertile

Nature. A man invites her to a table lavishly abundant

With wine and viands. Dissolute? No, sociable and kind.

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Digging for treasure or spreading truth, reposing

In flowers or sharing a feast, we enjoy summer.

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{Tuesday} {Luxuriating}


Cosmic Piper

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Message for Monday 1 August 2022

Monday 1 August 2022


\Coordinates/


Moon in Virgo—>Libra

/moon goes void-of-course at 3:30p PT | 6:30p ET | 10:30p UT

until it enters Libra at 9:07p PT | 12:07a(Tu) ET | 4:07a(Tu) UT

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A shovel suspended in mid-air can dig only air.

A serpent with many heads is ready to attack

The unwary air-farmer. Each fang represents

A pestilence or terror to the degenerate.

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Somehow a miner gets stones out of stones and sells them.

Ordinary things beneath the notice of most make him

Prosperous. Then he clasps faded exotics, sweet and

Sickly. Luxury makes him satiated, frail.

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Asks the quester of the sage: “Can there be a new continent?”

“Only if it forms neither to the east, nor to the west,

Nor to the north, nor to the south of where you are.”

“Does the path go up or down then?” Only silence.

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Mine the air or mine the rocks, evade

The serpent, let a new land come.

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{Monday} /Coordinates\


Cosmic Piper

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Message for Sunday 31 July 2022

Sunday 31 July 2022


\Orientation/


Moon in Virgo

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week ends at 6:34a PT | 9:34a ET | 1:34p UT

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A lightning flash rends the clouds and clears doubts,

Illumining all with a reformer’s pioneer insight.

Only if he misapprehended his mission could he explode

A bomb in mid-air, an impatient pest rather than teacher.

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In encompassing darkness only the eyes of a genius bright

As a huge star can perceive how the world is progressing.

A newly formed continent, remodeling the face of the world,

Brings original potentials out from over-all cycles.

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All hike on a road with curves and tempting side paths.

Signposts point toward unexpected delights.

Luxuries and pleasures seduce, but night approaches.

The best path leads to an orange tree loaded with fruit.

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Potentials are scary yet scrumptious. A light-flash reveals

Dangers, rapt originalities. fresh felicities.

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{Sunday} /Orientation\


Cosmic Piper

Friday, July 29, 2022

Message for Saturday 30 July 2022

Saturday 30 July 2022 


\Gentle but Strong and Brilliant/


Moon in Leo—>Virgo

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week continues until Sunday morning

/moon went void-of-course Friday at 9:30p; today at 12:30a ET or 4:30a UT

until it enters Virgo at 11:12a PT | 2:12p ET | 6:12p UT

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A woman holding a bag out of a window might drop it on the street,

Bad, or toss its goodies to a neighbor, sweet,

Facilitating life. Then she retreats. A hedgehog

Shuns the public gaze, harmless and defensive.

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Contending with too much, his tenacity guides him to

Avoid side paths suggested by enemies

And hold to the one true way, gentle but strong,

Which makes them rue the day they opposed him.

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A great genius in the West is emblemed by a huge star

Brighter than the moon, unacknowledged by the darkness.

A great leader in the East has founded a school of thought,

A Yoga, influencing profoundly the world like a water-wheel

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Because his teachings have no end but recur afresh

Like those of the Western genius. We need both.

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{Saturday} /Gentle but Strong and Brilliant\


Cosmic Piper

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Message for Friday 29 July 2022

Friday 29 July 2022


^Charlatan or Magus^


Moon in Leo

New Moon of Leo occurred Thursday at 10:56a PT | 1:56p ET | 5:56p UT

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week continues until Sunday morning

It’s good to be aware that we remain in a Bright Hermetic Epoch until Saturday August 20 (it began June 20). Are you noticing that you seem to have a lot of things figured out? Routines, daily and weekly schedules, and methods of work or research are likely to be on a progressive curve, so that you feel sure of them. That is all to the good. You might tinker with them a little more until the 20th but are likely to get them in very good shape so that you can rely on them through the next Dark or Slow Epoch, August 21 through October 16.

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Necessity fights with desire. Swords and torches battle.

Competition is real, as is resolving significance.

Watchful but idle, a dog sleeps on the cushion of

A throne. A charlatan has usurped the real king.

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The constellations in the sky circle on and on,

A sure confirmation of eternity, casting their

Rays on the crystal ball of a reader of Chance.

Her acute insight might spell Fate, or happy direction.

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On a mountain plateau, one of the ancient Magi performs

His daily devotions as the sun rises.

When it sets, something more daring: A woman draws

Two dark curtains aside. Gambling adventure?

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Sol moves among constellations, framing devotion;

Caprice opens unknown enticements.

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{Friday} ^Charlatan or Magus^


Cosmic Piper

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Message for Thursday 28 July 2022

Thursday 28 July 2022


^Stars and Flowers^


Moon in Leo (except for very early hours in the east, see yesterday’s report)

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week begins at 11:54a PT | 2:54p ET | 6:54p UT (until Sunday morning)

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Amid wind and scattered clouds the haste of excitement

Is exalting. Divine aplomb is spiritual lightness.

But swords are employed to battle torches, sharp facts

To oppose high motives. Where is there resolution?

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The crystal gazer hopes to reconcile opposing factors

Within the purview of some higher mental

Faculties. An old-fashioned woman and an up-to-date

Girl are contrasts for her resolving insight.

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Spring flowers below image bright stars

Flashing and sparkling in deep blue sky

Above. One, surrounded with many rings, assures

“Fear not, thou shalt succeed illustriously.”

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Contrasts oppose, challenge, reveal, open

Windows and doors otherwise closed.

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{Thursday} ^Stars and Flowers^


Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Message for Wednesday 27 July 2022

Wednesday 27 July 2022


~The Mysteries Wait~


Moon in Cancer—>Leo

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:55p PT | 8:55p ET | 12:55a(Th) UT

until it enters Leo at 11:37p PT | 2:37a(Th) ET | 6:37aa(Th) UT

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A snake coiled round a tree raises its head,

Ready to strike, waiting cunningly for the right

Moment. What is that, a skull, and dagger beside it?

Fateful tendencies have ended in war and grief.

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Like a wild boar he’s coarse, impolite but honest.

A life of his own transcends all enmity.

He serves those he approves without restraint or demand,

Proudly protecting them from the world’s deceptions.

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The old man attempting to reveal the Mysteries fights, pertinaciously,

The inertia of his learners. Higher vision is not awakened

Without effort. Will they explore until they discover,

Voyage to the Sun over the ocean, to illumination?

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Defense is after all but wisdom, hints the snake.

The boar says, Shun the liars. The Initiate waits.

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{Wednesday} ~The Mysteries Wait~


Cosmic Piper

 

Monday, July 25, 2022

Message for Tuesday 26 July 2022

Tuesday 26 July 2022


~Personality~


Moon in Cancer

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The vessel, guided by those without experience, avoids

Rocks but gets stranded on a low sandy beach.

A raven flying and cawing seems to take pleasure in the

Crew’s helplessness, with designs on their meager supplies

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A face long yet oval, with large empty eyes,

Clean-shaven, announces a popular man of the world.

Business done, he sits on a stool, cool and courageous,

Despising proffered assistance, lofty and proud.

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Another dude has superb aplomb, muffled up with a

Rakish silk hat, using whatever happens for

Humorous supremacy. He’s like a cat watching for prey,

Suave and watchful, sophisticated and circumspect.

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Personality wins its way when divinely crafted,

G*d sporting with His children, Krishna lila.

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{Tuesday} ~Personality~


Cosmic Piper

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Message for Monday 25 June 2022

Monday 25 June 2022


~Wink~


Moon in Gemini—>Cancer

/moon goes void-of-course at 1:16a PT | 4:16a ET | 8:16a UT

until it enters Cancer at 10:55a PT | 1:55p ET | 5:55p UT

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Querulousness takes nothing on trust. “All are liars.”

Questioning, quibbling, quarreling prevent quantum-leaps.

A raven standing on a water-pot is designing and crafty,

Planning mischief through envy. This ends in his hurt.

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Unreliability, obscurity make this person like a

Wave-line of nebulous light, a cloud in its midst.

Yet he stands on a lofty place with arms folded and

Head erect, proud and in love with himself.

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When humbled his sense of humor comes back. He muffles

Himself up, with a rakish silk hat, super-sophisticated.

He puts on his show ‘neath an oak tree wide-spreading,

With many young shoots, honored for shelter and comfort.

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Envy and quarreling open our minds to nebulous light,

Humor and finally rest. We wink at all and ourselves.

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{Monday} ~Wink~


Cosmic Piper

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Message for Sunday 25 July 2022

Sunday 25 July 2022


}Seashore Blessing{


Moon in Gemini

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He could have been a pastor, teacher, professor,

But despaired of being popular. Instead he inhabited

The seashore, hanging out with shellfish groping and

Children playing, in endless self-discovery.

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Four careers stretched out in her hopeful vision,

None fully thrilling until she learned to captain

A sailing ship. Masts decorated, sails reefed, it

Brought to her prosperity, honor, plaudits.

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She retired to a little village lying in a fertile

Valley, her heart filled with goodness and content.

On holidays she visited the coast where the “unsuccessful”

Man breathed salt air and played with children.

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Summer and seashore, now or remembered, open our

Hearts to a magic of earth-ocean laughter.

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{Sunday} {Seashore Blessing}


Cosmic Piper

Friday, July 22, 2022

Message for Saturday 23 July 2022

Saturday 23 July 2022


}Recovered Calling{


Moon in Gemini

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week ends at 3:13p PT | 6:13p ET | 10:13p UT

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Without a hole for seed, sowing goes to the wind.

Why is the shovel suspended in mid-air?

A dove lies on the ground, a snake poised over it.

How to plant new seed when love lies torn in fragments?

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The man placing items in the baggage compartment

Adjusts to his economic niche industriously.

When he feels secure he thinks, studies, reasons,

Analyzing details no one would ever consider.

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To speak or not to speak? An empty rostrum signals a missed calling.

He took one of four branch roads beckoning to his youthful

Hopes, then another, still in vain, then found the

Right path. Recovered, he could guide others wisely.

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What’s a career? A hole for fresh seed?

A path among the paths? A voice found?

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{Saturday} {Recovered Calling}


Cosmic Piper

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Message for Friday 22 July 2022

Friday 22 July 2022 


\Vital Vicissitudes/


Moon in Taurus—>Gemini

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of the week is with us until Saturday afternoon

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:46p PT | 7:46p ET | 11:46p UT

until it enters Gemini at 10:12p PT | 1:12a(Sa) ET | 5:12a(Sa) UT

The sun enters Leo at 1:08p PT | 4:08p ET | 8:08p UT

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The soldier, angry at bad commands, goes apoplectic.

He mobilizes his powers and drops his inhibitions.

Derelict in duty? “No,” he says. "Something divine

In me will not submit to what is wrong.”

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A man handling baggage doesn’t fly himself,

Attending to others’ needs industriously.

His niche is his own, like that of a hedgehog

Shunning the public gaze, harmless, secretive.

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A woman gaudily dressed has savoir faire

But plays with jewels in her lap extravagantly.

A crystal gazer gives her good advice but sees

Reflected images of what’s inexorable.

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Crystal gazer, baggage handler, jewel-

Juggler, rebellious soldier: brothers, sisters.

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{Friday} /Vital Vicissitudes\


Cosmic Piper

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Message for Thursday 21 July 2022

Thursday 21 July 2022


\Power of Selection/


Moon in Taurus

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week begins at 3:56a PT | 6:56a ET | 10:56a UT (until Saturday afternoon) (Saturday afternoon-evening could be the best Saturday period for social life or partying we’ve had in months, because previously the |difficult third| has taken up all of Saturday)

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It’s hot in the engine room of a steamer. Men work

Almost nude, far from home. They need quiet and settled

Routine. A sapling bent about the middle grows awry.

The young, trustful, know not human weakness and betrayal.

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Window-shoppers, examining possibilities,

Visualize what will best serve desire.

Discrimination, searching for confirmation,

Is a finger pointing to lines in an open book.

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A Daughter of the American Revolution establishes

Tradition blithely, rejecting unsympathetic change.

A crystal gazer sees beyond frozen pasts or presents,

Reflecting acutely individual and mundane moods.

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Calm assuages the heat, and love-betrayal.

Selective visualization invokes a happier future.

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{Thursday} \Power of Selection/


Cosmic Piper


Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Message for Wednesday 20 July 2022

Wednesday 20 July 2022


\The Sublime Manifesting/


Moon in Aries—>Taurus

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:20a PT | 10:20a ET | 2:20p UT

until it enters Taurus at 11:24a PT | 2:24p ET | 6:24p UT

A word about weather conditions. Of course the heat wave is seasonal, yet this year it seems worse than ever in some places, such as the United Kingdom where, as I write, Britons are suffering temperatures higher than ever recorded. I could feasibly link this with Mars moving closer and closer to Uranus, while the latter is square Saturn. Mars-Uranus hard aspects are incendiary, and there are fires breaking out in London. I have to say that things could be even worse next week when Mars will conjoin Uranus even more closely, and the week after that. Texas in the U. S. is currently the hardest-hit region.

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The remnants of a feast lie on the table of one

Extravagant, reckless. Camaraderie, indigestion?

A Muse weighs various options, twins of yes and no,

Trying to reconcile complementary values.

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A woman sprinkling flowers is determined

To manifest creative powers. She cares for

Beauty. A finger pointing in an open book

Sharpens attention, confirms significance.

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A crystal gazer’s faculties grant consummate

Foresight. Her acute insight evokes mystery

Yet organizes action. A veiled statue appears!

The sublime and glorious unfold enthusiasm.

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The merely sensual awakens musing on the

Ineffable. Then there’s prospering action.

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{Wednesday} /The Sublime Manifesting\


Cosmic Piper